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Roy Theodore Graham (11 December 1887 – 26 February 1965) was a Liberal party member of the
House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Common ...
. He was born in Smiths Falls, Ontario and became a barrister by career. Graham attended school at Smiths Falls, then one year at Osgoode Hall Law School. He was elected to Parliament at the Swift Current riding in the 1940 general election then defeated in the 1945 election by
Thomas John Bentley Thomas John Bentley, DCM (3 May 1891 – 2 June 1983) was a Canadian politician, agrologist, farmer and organizer. The son of Wells Bentley and Annie Brown, he was educated in Nova Scotia. Bentley went on to work as a logger and in railway c ...
of the
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; french: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC); from 1955 the Social Democratic Party of Canada (''french: Parti social démocratique du Canada''), was a federal democratic socialism, democra ...
. He was appointed a judge of the Court of King's Bench for Saskatchewan in 1949. He resigned owing to ill-health in 1960.


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* 1887 births 1965 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan Liberal Party of Canada MPs People from Smiths Falls Canadian King's Counsel Canadian Expeditionary Force officers Judges in Saskatchewan Lawyers in Saskatchewan {{Saskatchewan-politician-stub